Lockheed Martin Reviews

Pros

Great experience for fresh out college students gain alot of variety of experience first leve management rotates employee to new projects aproximately once a year.

Projects are given recognizition

Cons

Employees are evaluated "ranked" for salary increases against others with more experience employee. Employees do not share vital information voluntary. Employees keep critical information to themselves apparently to shore up their job security - to be seen as Subject Matter Experts (SME)
by Management. Management gives the subtile message that if you are not viewed as a SME, you
will not be be given favorable reviews/raises. Employees are given little or no training.

Advice to Senior Management

Upper management have skip-level meeting with the rank-and-file employees to gain a fresh perspective. Have fewer compliance training course requirements due in the same year, stagger the years the courses are due to be completed.

Pros

Good place to start a career due to their good tuition reimbursement benefits

Cons

They don't do a good job keeping their employees happy. Performance reviews are not handled well and raises are minimal

Pros

Good benefits package and vacation time. Unlimited sick leave. Geographically diverse, transferring is easy assuming you are a performer.

Cons

Big company and individual performance can easily go unrecognized.

Advice to Senior Management

Revamp the performance assessment system. Forcing corporate goals down into personal goals do not always make sense.

Pros

Lockheed Martin is a large company, and can therefore offer a wide variety of opportunities. The projects I'm involved with tend to have smaller teams, and therefore each person has more responsibility within the project. At the same time, I have heard of huge projects, with 100 developers or more, which I imagine provide a totally different dynamic. I definitely feel like I'm making a difference working in Lockheed Martin, and I do get a sense of pride from that.

Cons

It is notoriously difficult to get a good raise and get promoted within Lockheed Martin. Some people are more lucky than others, of course, but I wouldn't get my hopes up about quickly growing within the company.

Advice to Senior Management

I feel like raises and promotions should be better handled, and not just for senior management (!). It's not just me, I've talked to a number of developers, testers, even low level managers, from teams all over the company. Makes me wonder if quitting the company and reapplying for a higher position is the way to go, which shouldn't be the case in my opinion.

Pros

Pay and benefits are ok for the area

Cons

no promotions no overtime no respect

Advice to Senior Management

Ask the employees that do the work how and why they are completing tasks first before making changes.

Pros

Lockheed has a lot of contracts to work on in the DC area. They do a lot of different kinds of work. You can always find the technology you want to work on somewhere within the company. The people are generally great to work with. Working with government types is a great experience. There are an abundance of training options, and the best educational reimbursement I know of in this economy.

Cons

Your work location may change on a whim. You won't always work in the cleanest of facilities. The amount of restrictions you have can become burdensome at times. The pay is low compared to other companies, but there are a lot of opportunities for promotion and growth if you put extra effort into it.

There is way to much management. A lot of managers seem to not have a general competency in the technologies they oversee, which is frustrating.

Bonuses are awful.

Lunches are terrible.

Advice to Senior Management

Increase salaries
Add better bonuses
Get a new employee evaluation system
Attract more computer scientists

Pros

Benefits and off fridays offered

Cons

Very bureaucratic. Middle managers do not know how to manage.

Advice to Senior Management

Reward your employees. Times have changed, it's time for the company to catch on.

Pros

My small team consists of exceptionally talented and respectful members. My managers are superb, who fight for us team members especially when facing the red tape from high up. The company name has good recognition to it. The HR department does a fine job. I feel very safe and respected at work. I've heard job security is strong here.

Cons

The benefits are sub par, and get cut little by little every year. There is a lot of red tape from corporate. Their promotion/review system is completely broken. The managers are forced to give only a small percent of the team a good review/raise each year. If your entire team performs exceptionally well one year only one or two members are allowed official recognition and a raise for this achievement. This leads to a system which only benefits those who are in line for their next promotion. The raises and performance reviews are entirely based on who's next in line for promotion, not your actual performance. Also, it would be nice if we received bonuses when the company performs well, we don't even get company sponsored annual parties/outings.

Advice to Senior Management

Engineers are your bread and butter employees, it would be nice if you awarded them accordingly. Don't cut benefits and mask the change as improvements. If company cut backs are necessary, be honest about it.

Pros

big company with many benifits

Cons

big slow moving company, management is not always consistant

Advice to Senior Management

be consistant

Pros

interesting company large organization many offices

Cons

very process oriented company lots of PowerPoint

Advice to Senior Management

No advice